Friday, September 27, 2013
Wild Horses (Beneath the Raging Moon) - Byron J Bryce
Great song, great news!
I'm pleased to announce that my song, Wild Horses (Beneath a Raging Moon), sung by Byron J Bryce, is moving up the ReverbNation Country Chart, and getting increasingly noticed on YouTube. Please help to give it another big push in the right direction by sharing it with your friends. Thank you! You can download the song from iTunes, Amazon or CD Baby.
Thursday, September 19, 2013
"Abinger Road" --- New CD from Hayley Oliver & the Hayley Oliver Band
This morning I received a fabulous present from my good friend Hayley Oliver, and I'm enjoying listening to it as I write this post. The gift that the mailman brought this morning was the new CD from Hayley Oliver & the Hayley Oliver Band, "Abinger Road" which, just like previous releases from both Hayley and the band, demonstrates just how Country Music should sound. I LOVE it!
You can buy it for yourself by following this link.
Here's a taste of what Hayley Oliver & the Band sound like from a previous CD:
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Children's Exam Results : A Nun Grading Papers
The following landed in my email inbox this morning, and so I thought that I would share it with you to start your day with a smile.
A Nun Grading Papers
Can you imagine the nun sitting at her desk grading these papers, all the while trying to keep a straight face and maintain her composure! Pay special attention to the wording and spelling. If you know the Bible even a little, then you'll find this hilarious!
It comes from a Catholic Elementary School test.
The children were asked questions about both the Old and the New Testaments, and the following statements are the answers they gave. The statements have not been amended or corrected, and any incorrect spellings have been left in.
1. IN THE FIRST BOOK OF THE BIBLE, GUINESSIS. GOD GOT TIRED OF CREATING THE WORLD SO HE TOOK THE SABBATH OFF.
2. ADAM AND EVE WERE CREATED FROM AN APPLE TREE. NOAH'S WIFE WAS JOAN OF ARK. NOAH BUILT AND ARK AND THE ANIMALS CAME ON IN PEARS.
4. THE JEWS WERE A PROUD PEOPLE AND THROUGHOUT HISTORY THEY HAD TROUBLE WITH UNSYMPATHETIC GENITALS.
5. SAMPSON WAS A STRONGMAN WHO LET HIMSELF BE LED ASTRAY BY A JEZEBEL LIKE DELILAH.
6. SAMSON SLAYED THE PHILISTINES WITH THE AXE OF THE APOSTLES.
7. MOSES LED THE JEWS TO THE RED SEA WHERE THEY MADE UNLEAVENED BREAD, WHICH IS BREAD WITHOUT ANY INGREDIENTS.
8. THE EGYPTIANS WERE ALL DROWNED IN THE DESSERT. AFTERWARDS, MOSES WENT UP TO MOUNT CYANIDE TO GET THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
9. THE FIRST COMMANDMENTS WAS WHEN EVE TOLD ADAM TO EAT THE APPLE.
10. THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT IS THOU SHALT NOT ADMIT ADULTERY.
11. MOSES DIED BEFORE HE EVER REACHED CANADA THEN JOSHUA LED THE HEBREWS IN THE BATTLE OF GERITOL.
12. THE GREATEST MIRICLE IN THE BIBLE IS WHEN JOSHUA TOLD HIS SON TO STAND STILL AND HE OBEYED HIM.
13. DAVID WAS A HEBREW KING WHO WAS SKILLED AT PLAYING THE LIAR. HE FOUGHT THE FINKELSTEINS, A RACE OF PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN BIBLICAL TIMES.
14. SOLOMON, ONE OF DAVIDS SONS, HAD 300 WIVES AND 700 PORCUPINES.
15. WHEN MARY HEARD SHE WAS THE MOTHER OF JESUS, SHE SANG THE MAGNA CARTA.
16. WHEN THE THREE WISE GUYS FROM THE EAST SIDE ARRIVED THEY FOUND JESUS IN THE MANAGER.
17. JESUS WAS BORN BECAUSE MARY HAD AN IMMACULATE CONTRAPTION.
18. ST. JOHN THE BLACKSMITH DUMPED WATER ON HIS HEAD.
19. JESUS ENUNCIATED THE GOLDEN RULE, WHICH SAYS TO DO UNTO OTHERS BEFORE THEY DO ONE TO YOU. HE ALSO EXPLAINED A MAN DOTH NOT LIVE BY SWEAT ALONE.
20. IT WAS A MIRICLE WHEN JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD AND MANAGED TO GET THE TOMBSTONE OFF THE ENTRANCE.
21. THE PEOPLE WHO FOLLOWED THE LORD WERE CALLED THE 12 DECIBELS.
22. THE EPISTELS WERE THE WIVES OF THE APOSTLES.
23. ONE OF THE OPPOSSUMS WAS ST. MATTHEW WHO WAS ALSO A TAXIMAN.
24. ST. PAUL CAVORTED TO CHRISTIANITY, HE PREACHED HOLY ACRIMONY, WHICH IS ANOTHER NAME FOR MARRAIGE.
25. CHRISTIANS HAVE ONLY ONE SPOUSE. THIS IS CALLED MONOTONY.
Aren't Children great!!
A Nun Grading Papers
Can you imagine the nun sitting at her desk grading these papers, all the while trying to keep a straight face and maintain her composure! Pay special attention to the wording and spelling. If you know the Bible even a little, then you'll find this hilarious!
It comes from a Catholic Elementary School test.
The children were asked questions about both the Old and the New Testaments, and the following statements are the answers they gave. The statements have not been amended or corrected, and any incorrect spellings have been left in.
1. IN THE FIRST BOOK OF THE BIBLE, GUINESSIS. GOD GOT TIRED OF CREATING THE WORLD SO HE TOOK THE SABBATH OFF.
2. ADAM AND EVE WERE CREATED FROM AN APPLE TREE. NOAH'S WIFE WAS JOAN OF ARK. NOAH BUILT AND ARK AND THE ANIMALS CAME ON IN PEARS.
4. THE JEWS WERE A PROUD PEOPLE AND THROUGHOUT HISTORY THEY HAD TROUBLE WITH UNSYMPATHETIC GENITALS.
5. SAMPSON WAS A STRONGMAN WHO LET HIMSELF BE LED ASTRAY BY A JEZEBEL LIKE DELILAH.
6. SAMSON SLAYED THE PHILISTINES WITH THE AXE OF THE APOSTLES.
7. MOSES LED THE JEWS TO THE RED SEA WHERE THEY MADE UNLEAVENED BREAD, WHICH IS BREAD WITHOUT ANY INGREDIENTS.
8. THE EGYPTIANS WERE ALL DROWNED IN THE DESSERT. AFTERWARDS, MOSES WENT UP TO MOUNT CYANIDE TO GET THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
9. THE FIRST COMMANDMENTS WAS WHEN EVE TOLD ADAM TO EAT THE APPLE.
10. THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT IS THOU SHALT NOT ADMIT ADULTERY.
11. MOSES DIED BEFORE HE EVER REACHED CANADA THEN JOSHUA LED THE HEBREWS IN THE BATTLE OF GERITOL.
12. THE GREATEST MIRICLE IN THE BIBLE IS WHEN JOSHUA TOLD HIS SON TO STAND STILL AND HE OBEYED HIM.
13. DAVID WAS A HEBREW KING WHO WAS SKILLED AT PLAYING THE LIAR. HE FOUGHT THE FINKELSTEINS, A RACE OF PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN BIBLICAL TIMES.
14. SOLOMON, ONE OF DAVIDS SONS, HAD 300 WIVES AND 700 PORCUPINES.
15. WHEN MARY HEARD SHE WAS THE MOTHER OF JESUS, SHE SANG THE MAGNA CARTA.
16. WHEN THE THREE WISE GUYS FROM THE EAST SIDE ARRIVED THEY FOUND JESUS IN THE MANAGER.
17. JESUS WAS BORN BECAUSE MARY HAD AN IMMACULATE CONTRAPTION.
18. ST. JOHN THE BLACKSMITH DUMPED WATER ON HIS HEAD.
19. JESUS ENUNCIATED THE GOLDEN RULE, WHICH SAYS TO DO UNTO OTHERS BEFORE THEY DO ONE TO YOU. HE ALSO EXPLAINED A MAN DOTH NOT LIVE BY SWEAT ALONE.
20. IT WAS A MIRICLE WHEN JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD AND MANAGED TO GET THE TOMBSTONE OFF THE ENTRANCE.
21. THE PEOPLE WHO FOLLOWED THE LORD WERE CALLED THE 12 DECIBELS.
22. THE EPISTELS WERE THE WIVES OF THE APOSTLES.
23. ONE OF THE OPPOSSUMS WAS ST. MATTHEW WHO WAS ALSO A TAXIMAN.
24. ST. PAUL CAVORTED TO CHRISTIANITY, HE PREACHED HOLY ACRIMONY, WHICH IS ANOTHER NAME FOR MARRAIGE.
25. CHRISTIANS HAVE ONLY ONE SPOUSE. THIS IS CALLED MONOTONY.
Aren't Children great!!
Thursday, September 12, 2013
We must never forget: "9/11 Remembered"
9/11 Remembered
Close your eyes and try to keep out the dust;
Close your ears and try to keep out the sounds;
Close your mind and try to keep out the pain.
What now? Now that the years are passing,
and the ground no longer blossoms red?
What now? Now that the cloying dust has turned
into a vast bouquet of concrete roses?
What now? Now that the mind, in relaxed moments,
recalls the awful sounds of people screaming,
people crying,
--- of people dying?
What now?
Are all the lessons learned?
Has hatred turned to love?
Or is the world the same, despite the rhetoric
that it was changed for ever on that day?
So many questions. So many questions.
Yet still no answers from the growing shroud
that covers all the mounting dead.
Still no answers from the bleating throng
who find their solace in the world instead.
Still no peace exists 'tween man and man,
nor ever will as long as hate exists.
So on this day, when we recall the horror
of that day when life was changed,
let us make a stand for peace,
a stand for love,
a stand for Christ;
and in His name, pray to our God above
that our world will change again.
Yet let this change be one that turns on love.
Close your ears and try to keep out the sounds;
Close your mind and try to keep out the pain.
What now? Now that the years are passing,
and the ground no longer blossoms red?
What now? Now that the cloying dust has turned
into a vast bouquet of concrete roses?
What now? Now that the mind, in relaxed moments,
recalls the awful sounds of people screaming,
people crying,
--- of people dying?
What now?
Are all the lessons learned?
Has hatred turned to love?
Or is the world the same, despite the rhetoric
that it was changed for ever on that day?
So many questions. So many questions.
Yet still no answers from the growing shroud
that covers all the mounting dead.
Still no answers from the bleating throng
who find their solace in the world instead.
Still no peace exists 'tween man and man,
nor ever will as long as hate exists.
So on this day, when we recall the horror
of that day when life was changed,
let us make a stand for peace,
a stand for love,
a stand for Christ;
and in His name, pray to our God above
that our world will change again.
Yet let this change be one that turns on love.
© Copyright 2009 : Colin Gordon-Farleigh
Monday, September 2, 2013
My 'Hymn for Today' : "Here I Am Lord"
Here I Am Lord 7777
TUNE: Innocents
Come, Lord Jesus, to my heart,
Willing, I would, play my part;
Here I am Lord, here for Thee,
Come, Lord Jesus, let it be.
I will serve Thee here below,
Arms wide open, eyes aglow;
Here I am Lord, here for Thee,
Come, Lord Jesus, let it be.
Thou hast healed my sinful heart,
Cleansed my soul, set me apart;
Here I am Lord, here for Thee,
Come, Lord Jesus, let it be.
Willing, give my life to Thee,
Now Thy light my blind eyes see;
Here I am Lord, here for Thee,
Come, Lord Jesus, let it be.
© 2006 : Colin Gordon-Farleigh
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